Media Chat: Ghanaian Professor Blasts Goodluck Jonathan, Says: “This Guy is a Joke”

One of the World’s foremost economists, Professor George Ayittey has lashed out at the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), describing him as “a joke” and a mediocre President after his (GEJ’s) encounter with the media last night.
According to Professor Ayittey, Nigeria “deserves a better leader”, judging by GEJ’s poor, almost unfortunate responses to some of the questions posed to him by the Nigerian media last night.
The Professor indicated that GEJ’s refusal to declare his assets and his failure to tackle the Boko Haram crisis suggest that he is of an unsound mind.

He therefore called on Nigerians to rid themselves of GEJ as soon as possible.
He said: “Nigerians should not put up with such mediocrity and should mount a RECALL GEJ campaign. They should check Chapter VI of their Constitution. See Sections 143 and 144 about removing the President and Vice-President from office other than through elections”.
“137; 1c: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if under the law in any part of Nigeria, he is adjudged to be a lunatic or otherwise declared to be of unsound mind.”

Professor Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist, author, president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC, professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, made this known on twitter this morning.
Read the entire tweet below:

“Look, this GEJ guy is a joke – a meretricious mediocrity. Nigerians deserve a better leader. Fancy his statements and responses to questions in a media chat on June 24, 2012:

• He has not visited Borno state, the center of Boko Haram attacks, because the airport there was not functional at the time he planned to visit. “And we did not want to land somewhere and fly in to Maiduguri with a helicopter for obvious reasons.”

[Why is the airport not functioning? Why hasn’t it been fixed? And are there no ROADS into Borno State?]

• Asked why he had not declared his assets, Mr. Jonathan replied in an impatient tone, stating “I don’t give a damn” about declaration of assets. He related that he had gone to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua to caution “that we should not play to the hands of some people [by openly declaring their assets].” Mr. Jonathan added, “That is a matter of principle and I am not going to declare. It is not the president declaring his asset that will end Boko Haram.”
• The president said it’s a matter of principle and whether he is criticised from “head to toe” he will not declare his assets. “It is not right,” he said. “I didn’t want even want to declare my assets as VP” but was forced by the then president, Umara Musa Yar’Adua. He said asset declaration is “not the right thing to do.”

[Damn it, it is a constitutional requirement to declare your assets, Mr. President. See Chapter VI, Part 1, Section 140 of Nigeria’s Constitution: “Declaration of assets and liabilities, oaths of President.” And what the hell has Boko Haram got to do with declaration of assets?]

• Agriculture: The president said his government is revolutionizing agriculture in Nigeria.”We are giving cotton seeds free in the North” he said.

[This is the most crass definition of an “agricultural revolution” – by providing free seeds.]

• The President said the government is doing very well in railway construction. “You may not know, but we are working,” he said. He added that his government has made a “significant progress” in railway construction. “You should commend us,” he adds.

[What “significant progress” has been made in railway construction? How many Nigerians are working on railway construction with the contract given to Chinese firms?]

• UNILAG name change: The president said what he did, in terms of law, was correct. You change the name first, then send the bill to the National Assembly later, he argues. “What we did, was the normal procedure,” he said.

[No, Mr. Presient, you had it backward. Before you change the name of University of Lagos (UNILAG), you consult with the university and the student body, which you did NOT do.]

• Crude Oil Theft: “The stealing of crude oil is a Nigerian phenomenon,” the president said. He adds that it has gone cancerous. “We will stop it, but it is like allowing a cancerous cell to grow into a major tumor.”

[Mr. President, theft of crude oil is a CRIME, not a “Nigerian phenomenon or a disease afflicting Nigerians. Describing it that way means you are CLUELESS about how to solve it.]

Nigerians should not put up with such mediocrity and should mount a RECALL GEJ campaign.
They should check Chapter VI of their Constitution. See Sections 143 and 144 about removing the President and Vice-President from office other than through elections.

137; 1c: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if under the law in any part of Nigeria, he is adjudged to be a lunatic or otherwise declared to be of unsound mind.” Link: http:///MSxUws ”

Professor Ayittey holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba. He has taught at Wayne State College and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
He held a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution in 1988-89, and then joined The Heritage Foundation as a Bradley Resident Scholar.
He founded The Free Africa Foundation in 1993, to serve as a catalyst for reform in Africa.
In 2008 Dr. Ayittey was listed by Foreign Policy as one of the “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” who “are shaping the tenor of our time”. He lives in Lorton, Virginia.
What do you make of his comments? Is Professor Ayittey justified in his criticism of GEJ?

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Prof, pls let him know that his cluelessness has gone beyond Nigeria's borders since 1870.

ppl frm otuoke like Gej making jokes since 1240

team buhari

I'll stop discussing GEJ. It's that bad.

Prof, I think you ar too cheap even with all your certs!

pls focus more on ur country and stop being a cheap tool!!

Tnx!!!

The professor wrote well. He understands how bad PEJ is for nigerian system. Still, the jonathanians here can never see anything bad in their pay mistress. Is either their brains are dead or they are being mischievous. They are stupid anyway!

The professor need to remove the plank in his country before criticizing GEJ. Gej is far better than a hundred Mahamas

lecturerdabo:
Prof, I think you ar too cheap even with all your certs!

pls focus more on ur country and stop being a cheap tool!!

Tnx!!!

Bt all he said are true

The cluelessness of Gej stinks to high heavens. So much that concerned people all over the world are not comfortable with it any more.
The God that delivered us from ebola will surely deliver us from this Ebele.

This man cluelessness is a source of national embarrassment, everybody keeps wondering how did Nigerian get such a leader, do such people actually exist in Nigeria? GEJ till 2014

Even a Ghanaian know we don't Ve the right leader and some Nigeria go dey shout GEJ till 2019.
Re u dumb or you are cursed or possessed

PDP paid agents will soon be here to tell us the Prof is an APC man

GEJ is just like a bull in a china's store..

He's lost,no interest of the people at heart,except selfish interest.

Can't wait for him to be kicked out.

GEJ,stupidity beyond border.

This one is just the beginning, an harvad prof will still tell us how unsound-minded our outgoing (2015 ) preaident is.

#In the Children of Anger's voice: the professor is a paid Tinubu hack. He should be worried about his own health at his age!

I never knew ghana had such enlightened people and they are in such financial mess, going to imf for bailout?

And you all APC ignorants think that an ab0ki general that has not been resourceful for the past 30 years will have a clue about running Nigeria ha?

That Prof is a lunatic for saying that my President has an unsound mind.

I can't stop laughing.

Lol. Nawa o. Nothing else to say... So its that bad a Ghanaian go dey open mouth to Naija. Chai c werin PDP cos after 16years. Thunder that will fire Obasanjo, Jonathan n gang(esp that woman with big cheeks that can lie) ...the thunder stil dey gym

For yeye politics, you would follow a foreigner to insult your president.

UNDER PRESIDENT JONATHAN GOVT.
* 20M DOLLARS MISSING
* 13M DOLLARS MISSING
* WAR JET OF 500M DOLLARS MISSING
* OVER 1000 SOLDIERS MISSING OR KILLED BY BOKO HARAM
* $1 TRILLION DOLLARS MISSING OR
SHARED AMONG THE P.D.PIGS
* 250 MISSING CHIBOK GIRLS
* PENTION MONEY STILL MISSING
* PEACE & UNITY STILL MISSING E.T.C "BUT CORRUPTION & BOKO HARAM
NEVER MISSING"

The so called giant of africa has been reduced to a dwarf or midget ; from grace to grass. I weep for nigeria.

donmalcolm21:
The professor need to remove the plank in his country before criticizing GEJ. Gej is far better than a hundred Mahamas

Keep that bogus hyperbolic expression for someone of worth.

Cluelessness at it peak


GEJ is just too daft

lecturerdabo:
Prof, I think you ar too cheap even with all your certs!

pls focus more on ur country and stop being a cheap tool!!

Tnx!!!

but the prof is saying the obvious truth.

I'm tired of discussing about this guy's daftness and cluelesness. Make next year february jux come abeg!

kropelgrada:
And you all APC ignorants think that an ab0ki general that has not been resourceful for the past 30 years will have a clue about running Nigeria ha?

That Prof is a lunatic for saying that my President has an unsound mind.

An Aboki general is light years ahead of your drunk arne of clueless president you skunk.

[size=16pt]PROFESSOR GOAT AYITTEH. WHY NOT FACE YOUR OWN COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT AND PROBLEMS? LOOK AT GHANA. ONLY 24 MILLION PEOPLE, AND THE 2ND LARGEST GOLD PRODUCER IN AFRICA AFTER SA, PLUS THE LARGEST COCOA PRODUCER ON EARTH, PLUS AN OIL AND GAS PRODUCER/EXPORTER. WHY SHOULD THERE BE ANY POVERTY AT ALL IN GHANA? WHY HAS THE ECONOMY TANKED? WHY ARE YOU NOW BEGGING IMF/WORLD BANK FOR MONEY? THE PEOPLE THERE SHOULD BE LIVING LIKE KINGS. WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE?

STUP/D PROFESSOR. DON'T FACE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS.[/size]

The cluelessness and visionless of jonathan is out of this world,this is a president who's spineless and dosen't give a damn,a president who says stealing is not corruption,a president who's hell bent on milking nigeria dry with his shippo wife and yet some gullible people won't see beyond that because they are blinded by their mediocre performance and the little change they are given by them.

Anytime i remember GEJ i remember the immigration tragedy that claim the lives of Nigeria citizenS, yet no one resign/sack/punish.
Haaaaaaaa Change is inevitable

Prof should be careful,he might get attack soon by boko haram.The boko haram c-in-c is Jonathan.

Prof,be careful.

Prof should be careful,he might get attack soon by boko haram.The boko haram c-in-c is Jonathan.

Prof,be very careful.